countries are in this category so the philippines until 1991 was home to the when the u.s. pulled out, it was discovered that we had, over the course of, you know, several decades, laid enormous environmental waste to the countryside. there was never a working sewer system at the bases, and so the result was just decades and decades of human and animal waste accumulating in the ground and in the water around there. however, for what it's worth, the philippines, the government , after world war ii, had signed a status of forces agreement that said it would take care of any of the side effects of u.s. action. the u.s. also said, look, you know, when we're pulling out in the 1990's and we're cognizant of these problems, these veermental problems, we can't really hold ourselves responsible for actions that were begun at a time when no one in the world really considered the veermental consequences of this kind of activity. so we're not going to put ourselves in a position where we're suddenly responsible for actions that were taken under a different sort of paradigm, or different minds
